Trump administration layoffs of federal employees Department of Education office that helps support children with disabilities was completely destroyed, NPR reported on Monday, adding to the list of people Trump has needlessly hurt with his cruelty.
According to NPR, every employee in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, including the Office of Special Education Programs and the Office of Rehabilitation Services, has been laid off as part of Trump's staff cuts. These offices help not only distribute $15 billion that helps educate approximately 7.5 million children with disabilities nationwide, but also provide oversight to ensure states are following federal law that protects these students.
They are some of about 4,200 federal employees who were released as a result of Trump's mass culling, which was key goal of Project 2025-Trump's right-wing road map lied that he had nothing to do with the 2024 campaign.
“If this RIF notice is implemented, the Department of Education will no longer be able to administer IDEA,” a Department of Education source. said ABC News citing Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Grants that help schools meet special education needs. “I don’t have employees who could allocate money and control staff.”
Trump and the thugs in his administration accused government shutdown due to mass layoffs, although the shutdown did not require any layoffs.
“No one is forcing Trump and Vought to hurt American workers with mass layoffs—they just want to,” Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington said in the report. statementreferring to Project 2025 mastermind turned Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought. “The shutdown does not give Trump or Vought new special powers to cause more chaos or permanently weaken essential services for the American people, and the simple fact is that this administration has been recklessly firing and rehiring essential workers all year. This is nothing new, and no one should fear these scammers.”
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In fact, Trump was trying to close down the Ministry of Education for yearsAnd announced he did this when he took office.
Trump More than a thousand department employees have already been firedand is now using the closure as cover to avoid backlash from additional layoffs he has decided to carry out – no matter how big they are harm students.
Destroying offices that help students learn and attend school is evil. But this is just the latest way Trump is hurting children with disabilities. Trump has already cut funding for grants that help students with hearing and vision impairments.
And it's further evidence that Trump doesn't care about children, since these layoffs will likely result in students losing the services or protections that kept them from being discriminated against.
“There is a risk that money for their children's education will not be transferred to the state, and that their access to support and advocacy for their children with special needs will no longer continue because there are no staff to administer IDEA,” said a Department of Education executive who was granted anonymity to speak freely. said ABC News.
